25 Mar 2009 George Will’s ‘Partial List of Recent Lawlessness, Situational Constitutionalism and Institutional Derangement’

I recommend George F. Will’s column in the Washington Post and other papers Tuesday.

If it doesn’t make you want to fight what’s going on in Washington, nothing will.

The column begins:

With the braying of 328 yahoos — members of the House of Representatives who voted for retroactive and punitive use of the tax code to confiscate the legal earnings of a small, unpopular group — still reverberating, the Obama administration yesterday invited private-sector investors to become business partners with the capricious and increasingly anti-constitutional government. This latest plan to unfreeze the financial system came almost half a year after Congress shoveled $700 billion into the Troubled Assets Relief Program, $325 billion of which has been spent without purchasing any toxic assets.

TARP funds have, however, semi-purchased, among many other things, two automobile companies (and, last week, some of their parts suppliers), which must amaze Sweden. That unlikely tutor of America regarding capitalist common sense has said, through a Cabinet minister, that the ailing Saab automobile company is on its own: “The Swedish state is not prepared to own car factories.”

Another embarrassing auditor of American misgovernment is…

Read it all here.
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Labels: Congress, Government Power, Government Spending, Liberals, Media, White House